Below the Flume Looking Down, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire

Artist Bierstadt Brothers (American, Charles (1819-1903), Edward (1824-1907), Albert (1830-1902))

Date1860

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 15 13/16 × 12 13/16 inches (40.16 × 32.54 cm)
Mount: 21 7/8 × 18 1/4 inches (55.56 × 46.36 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.541

SignedSigned on image recto, lower left, in negative: "Bierstadt"; Attribution on mount recto, lower right, in black type: "Bierstadt Bros. Photographers."

InscribedInscribed on mount recto, bottom center, in black type: "BELOW THE FLUME LOOKING DOWN. / FRANCONIA MOUNTAINS, N.H."

MarkingsOn mount recto, lower left, in black type: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Bierstadt Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts."; On mount recto, lower left, in black type: "(214)"

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DescriptionImage of a stream winding through a forest; light shines through the dense foliage near the top of the frame.Published References

Published References

Keith F. Davis, The Origins of American Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Distributed by Yale University Press. Published in conjunction with Developing Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885, shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 338 (repro).

Diane Waggoner, Russell Lord, and Jennifer Raab. East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art Washington and New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2017), 121 (repro.).

Published References

Catherine Campbell, "Albert Bierstadt and the White Mountains," Archives of American Art Journal 21:3 (1981): 14-19.

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